Kosovo’s prime minister has asked NATO-led peacekeepers to increase their presence on the northern border with Serbia, saying the area is the entry point for illegal weapons and threats to stability.
FILE - Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in the capital Pristina, on Sept. 29, 2023. Kosovo’s prime minister on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, asked NATO-led peacekeepers to increase their presence on the northern border with Serbia, saying the area was the entry point for illegal weapons and threats to stability.
“Such an increased presence should be focused in guarding the border between Kosovo and Serbia where all Serbia’s weaponry has arrived from and the threat to Kosovo comes,” Prime Minister Albin Kurti told Maj. Gen. Ozgan Ulutas, the new commander of the Kosovo Force mission, or KFOR. Kurti has repeatedly said Kosovo police cannot fully guard the 350-kilometer long border with Serbia and its many illegal crossings used by criminals.crossed into northern Kosovo, killing a police officer and setting up barricades, before launching an hours-long gun battle with Kosovo police. Three gunmen were killed.
Kosovo has a limited number of law enforcement officials in its four northern municipalities where most of the ethnic Serb minority lives, after Kosovo Serb police walked out of their jobs last year., which normally has a troop strength of 4,500, with an additional 200 troops from the U.K. and more than 100 from Romania. It also sentKFOR, which is made up of peacekeepers from 27 nations, has been in Kosovo since June 1999, basically with light armament and vehicles.
The international pressure has increased recently over the implementation of a 10-point plan put forward by the European Union in February to end months of political crises. Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
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